There was no report of any seismic activity in the country but the Administrative Building, which houses the Prime Minister’s office, shook multiple times Monday afternoon, causing workers to evacuate.
According to information on Monday, the tremors started shortly after midday and they were felt mainly on the two uppermost floors of the four-storey building.
Speculation was rife as to what possibly caused the tremors on Monday.
Some people expressed the view that the building, constructed in the late 1980s at the reclamation site and opened in early 1992 has structural integrity issues.
Some people bluntly put the cause of the tremors on the construction of the nearby Kingstown Port built on a site reclaimed in recent years. They opined that the dredging work done for the construction of the port might have compromised the foundation on the Financial Building.
Amid claims of possible administrative shake up in the coming general elections, some people also claimed that the large number of people moving between floors in the building to receive vouchers for major kitchen appliances and other items in what has been claimed to be political treating was the cause of the shaking of the building.
Interestingly, while the upper floors of the building were closed Monday afternoon, the Treasury Department on the ground floor remained open to business.
Regular business activities at the upper floors resumed Tuesday morning.
Wednesday afternoon, the Office of the Prime Minister was contacted and asked about any report or comment on the possible cause of the shaking. The secretary referred the reporter to the permanent secretary who, according to her, was not in office.
Up to late Wednesday, St Vincent Express not aware of any official report or comment as to the possible cause of the multiple tremors.
